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coinbase

coinbase noun: the transaction that is automatically created in every Bitcoin block to reward the miner.

Noun

coinbase (plural coinbases)

  1. The transaction that is automatically created in every Bitcoin block to reward the miner.
    • The transaction that created new Bitcoins would be referred to as the coinbase of each block.2015, Nathaniel Popper, “Technical Appendix”, in Digital Gold, 1st edition, New York: Harper, →ISBN, →OCLC
    • The authors randomly sampled 100 coinbases from the last 20,000 blocks of the blockchain that by the time of the experiment had the highest block-height at 247,054.2016, Ghassan O. Karame, Elli Androulaki, Bitcoin and Blockchain Security, Artech House, →ISBN, page 92

Forms of coinbase

pluralcoinbases

Origin of coinbase

From coin + base.

Questions about coinbase

What does coinbase mean?
Coinbase means the transaction that is automatically created in every Bitcoin block to reward the miner.
What part of speech is coinbase?
Coinbase is a noun.
What is the plural of coinbase?
The plural of coinbase is coinbases.

Words near coinbase in the dictionary

  1. coin-tossers
  2. coin-tosses
  3. coinable
  4. coinage
  5. coinages
  6. coinbase
  7. coinbases
  8. coinbox
  9. coinboxes
  10. coincide
  11. coincided

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